Last night, Cyanogen revealed on Twitter that WiMAX had officially landed in CM7, via the latest nightly. No small feat, given that the team had to write their own code entirely from scratch. And while CM-based builds with WiMAX have been floating around for a few weeks now, this is the first official release - effectively addressing the last major qualm many EVO owners had with CM.

To test it out for yourself, download and flash the latest nightly (build 6+), head into the Wireless & Network Settings, and enable WiMAX.

I'd heard word a few weeks back that enabling/disabling was faster using the custom-written firmware, but in my admittedly short experience, it's been about the same. Not that I'm complaining - I rarely toggle it, so it's not really a big deal anyway. I can't argue with having it in the first place, let alone that it seems to be substantially (10%+) faster than 4G on a stock-based ROM (again, though, I haven't verified that empirically).

Comments

Dave

MOAR GEEEEEEEEZ PLEASE!!!! Great job teamwin and teamdouche. Amazing work. Just wish I had 4g in my area. Think I'm gonna have to travel to the west side of Madison just to check it out :) Also worth noting that they have HDMI out almost completed, also. I for one will not own a phone that CM is not made for.

Have you tried tethering yet? I have been trying this and I get a significant speed cut when I tether. Wimax works now with CM BUT wimax AND wifi together is still having issues.

Kenneth P

Do i have to flash a new radio?...i have no idea which one im using now

Dave

You don't need to, but it's usually recommended to get the latest.

SiliconAddict

For cyanogenmod I think its required to be on the latest and greatest.

Dave

that's a negative sir

chrispy

BA DA BA BA BA! I'm loving it!

Brett

I am a nooby to root. I have recently installed the unrevoked 3.3... Can this .apk be installed on my htc evo? or do I need Cyanogen rom first?

Dave

You flash the ROM in recovery. I would check out the XDA forums for some how-to's. Everything you need to know can be found there. SEARCH the forums before asking questions. Save yourself the trouble of people getting after you about it

SiliconAddict

Does anyone know the reliability of this and your RSA keys? I know that eariler WIMAX supported builds were fooking people's RSA keys and as a result killing WIMAX.